Setting up Windows virtual test environments with Vagrant

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    Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.

  • Virtualbox, VMWare and Hyper-V all offer their own CLIs, but we'd like to use a provider-neutral tool. Hence we decided for Hashicorp's Vagrant, an open-source CLI-based VM manager already equipped with providers integrated with the main hypervisors.

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  • Once the installation is complete, you can verify it by opening your favorite shell (recommending Microsoft's open-source Windows Terminal), and running:

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  • In our case, let's try to set up a development environment by installing a package manager (in our case Chocolatey) and then an IDE (what's better than Visual Studio Code?), and let's try to do it with the shell provisioner, i.e. uploading and running a shell script.

  • Chocolatey

    Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows

  • In our case, let's try to set up a development environment by installing a package manager (in our case Chocolatey) and then an IDE (what's better than Visual Studio Code?), and let's try to do it with the shell provisioner, i.e. uploading and running a shell script.

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